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The Discovery Bridge is a bridge that carries US Route 81 across the Missouri River from the Nebraska border to the South Dakota border. The Discovery Bridge connects Yankton, South Dakota, with rural Cedar County, Nebraska . The ribbon-cutting ceremony was on October 11, 2008, a year ahead of schedule. During the ceremony John McAuliffe and ...
Deception Pass Bridge is the common name for two two-lane bridges on Washington State Route 20 connecting Whidbey Island in Island County, to Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington. It was a Washington State Highways project, and included project elements built by young workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps.
1834, 1883, 1921, 1990. Location. The Discovery Bridge, commonly known as the Broad Street Bridge, [1] is a bridge in Columbus, Ohio, United States, carrying Broad Street over the Scioto River and connecting Downtown Columbus to Franklinton. [2] [3] The bridge was named in reference to Christopher Columbus 's "discovery" of the Americas; the ...
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [2] On May 9, 2008, a 10-ton gross weight limit was placed on the bridge after an inspection found corrosion on the gusset plates. It was replaced by the Discovery Bridge upon its opening on October 11, 2008, exactly 84 years after the dedication of the Meridian Highway ...
Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]
Discovery Bridge. Discovery Bridge may refer to: Discovery Bridge (Columbus, Ohio), connecting downtown Columbus and Franklinton. Discovery Bridge (Missouri), connecting Saint Louis County with Saint Charles County, Missouri. Discovery Bridge (Yankton), completed in 2008 across the Missouri River, connecting Nebraska with Yankton, South Dakota.
Discovery Bridge (Missouri) / 38.798; -90.467. The Discovery Bridge is a pair of truss bridges carrying Missouri Route 370 across the Missouri River between St. Louis County and St. Charles County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The bridge was built between 1989 and 1992. Massman Construction built the river substructure and erected the steel ...
Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to ...